Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends. Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 89 15:21:36 GMT References: <3675@ficc.uu.net> <14689@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <16758@mimsy.UUCP> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 15 In article <16758@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >Actually, flink would be no problem even now. (fsymlink, on the other >hand, has the same problem as funlink and frename.) Yes, I thought of this after I wrote [that flink would be a problem]. Imagine. You've unlinked a file right after you opened it, and now you've changed your mind. You really do want to keep the data. What do you do? We can help you! We're FLINK! int flink(int fd, char * path); -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee